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Face detection

Detect one or more human faces in an image and get back face rectangles for where in the image the faces are, along with face attributes which contain machine learning-based predictions of facial features. The face attribute features
available are: Age, Emotion, Gender, Pose, Smile and Facial Hair along with 27 landmarks for each face in the image.

Emotion recognition

The Face API now integrates emotion recognition, returning the confidence across a set of emotions for each face in the image such as anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, neutral, sadness and surprise. These emotions are understood to be cross-culturally and universally communicated with particular facial expressions.

"It did not take us long to realise Microsoft Cognitive Services had handed us a powerful set of computer-vision and artificial-intelligence tools that we could use to create great apps and new features for our customers in just a few hours"

"Using the Cognitive Services APIs, it took us three months to develop a test pair of glasses that can translate text and images into speech, identify emotions and describe scenery. If we had been working full time, we could have done it in two weeks"